I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.

One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. I love only nature, and I hate mathematicians.

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things.

If all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible?

If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.

The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language.

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